[ale] skipping/bypassing print dialog

Brian Pitts brian at polibyte.com
Wed Apr 8 21:17:58 EDT 2009


Mike Harrison wrote:
> For a special purpose "kiosk" running Ubuntu (8.10) { actually Eeebuntu 
> on an Asus Eee Top }  - I would like to disable the print dialog box.
> It prints what are essentially receipts, and does that well.
> But having to click [Print] the second time from the printer dialog box
> seems to be a redundant step in this special case.
> 
> I've been googling, check cups.org.. looked at the config files
> on the system.. I just don't know much about printing from Linux.
> I rarely do it it, and it "just works" when I do need it, my former 
> education in print.conf and lpd seems to have vanished.

On second reading of your question, I seem to have invented the part
where your receipts are generated by a web app that you're accessing via
Firefox. I think "kiosk" has wrongly tied itself to "locked-down web
browser" in my mind.

Anyway, I think the problem is best attacked in the application that
submits the jobs rather than CUPS.

-- 
All the best,
Brian Pitts


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